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<p>Democrats who have been luke-warm about passing a $15 minimum wage got the cover they needed yesterday as the <a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/us/politics/federal-minimum-wage.html'>Senate parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, advised that the $15 minimum wage cannot be included in a reconciliation package</a>.  </p> <p>Those Democrats who have been pushing for the $15 minimum wage have urged that Vice President Harris overrule the parliamentarian’s ruling, which is within her authority. On Twitter, <a href='https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1365100463637561352'>Representative Ro Khanna</a> wrote, “I’m sorry - an unelected parliamentarian does not get to deprive 32 million Americans the raise they deserve. This is an advisory, not a ruling. VP Harris needs to disregard and rule a $15 minimum wage is in order.”</p> <p>It’s time to dump the filibuster and, as David Dayen argued this morning, it’s time to <a href='https://prospect.org/first100/put-minimum-wage-bill-on-floor-democrats-senate-parliamentarian/'>put the $15 minimum wage bill on the floor</a>. </p> <p>And while the Biden administration and conservative Democrats are willing to throw up their hands and say there is nothing they can do when it comes to the minimum wage, they’re willing to <a href='https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/neera-tanden-nomination-joe-biden/index.html'>roll out the tanks in support of Neera Tandem’s appointment</a> to the Office of Management and Budget. </p> <p>Release the hawks. <a href='https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/us-iraq-iran/index.html'>Biden orders air strikes in Syria</a> against two Iranian-backed militias on the border with Iraq. The administration claims to have targeted and destroyed “multiple facilities located at a border control point used by a number of Iranian-backed militant groups.” The strikes were said to be in response to recent attacks on American contractors and properties in Iraq by militants. </p> <p>And the pandemic rages on. Even as cases began to drop, the U.S.